EP0362231A1 - Systeme de reclusion controlable a distance. - Google Patents
Systeme de reclusion controlable a distance.Info
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- EP0362231A1 EP0362231A1 EP88904140A EP88904140A EP0362231A1 EP 0362231 A1 EP0362231 A1 EP 0362231A1 EP 88904140 A EP88904140 A EP 88904140A EP 88904140 A EP88904140 A EP 88904140A EP 0362231 A1 EP0362231 A1 EP 0362231A1
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- G—PHYSICS
- G08—SIGNALLING
- G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
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- the present invention relates to the alter ⁇ native confinement and personal surveillance systems for prisoners, probationers and the like, which are often referred to as "home arrest” , "home incarcera ⁇ tion” or “remote confinement” systems. More particu ⁇ larly, the present invention relates to such systems requiring verification of the prisoner's presence at an unsupervised place of confinement or detention and verification of the prisoner's compliance with addi ⁇ tional conditions and behavioral restrictions asso ⁇ ciated with the confinement.
- Background of the Invention The concept of remote confinement has attracted a great deal of public interest in recent years as an aid for probation and as an alternative to prison, jail or other institutional confinement for certain classes of criminal offenders.
- Home incar- ceration and remote confinement refer to confinement to one's home or to another location usually remote from a conventional prison or other correctional facility for service of a criminal sentence or probation.
- Some devices include an RF transmitter in a neck band, bracelet or anklet which emits a constant or pulsed signal which is received by a transponder connected to the phone line in the prisoner's home; when the signal sensed by the transponder drops below a predetermined level due to the prisoner's excessive distance from the phone, the transponder dials the central office.
- the transponder is activated when contacted by a phone call from the central office and, at that time, verifies the presence of the prisoner as determined by the presence or absence of a signal from the transmitter.
- Other systems require a physical contact or the generation of an electronic signal between the bracelet or anklet and the phone set to be initialized by the prisoner in response to a call from the central office.
- the cameras of these systems are used either on-line or with recording devices.
- Such systems when used on-line, require a human attendant to monitor the visual images and to make decisions based on what is viewed.
- An attendant at the central office is not essential in the prior art systems described previously, however, and such systems would lend themselves more readily to a more automated and less supervised decision making process.
- Alcohol usage is often of great concern to probation officials. This is due not only to the fac that many of the offenders for which home incarcera- tion is well suited are those having a history of alcohol abuse, but it is also because the home incar ⁇ ceration concept itself results in a state of boredom and inactivity which precipitates alcohol abuse.
- Alcohol and drugs are often readily avail- able to the prisoner incarcerated at home. Such bein the case, substance abuse is a problem for the entire family as well as the prisoner. The likelihood of domestic violence and erratic behavior is greatly increased by substance abuse. Drinking diminishes the ability of the offender to make rational decisions about complying with judicially imposed conditions so that violence or attempts to flee from the place of confinement as well as other offenses which would not be as likely to occur when the prisoner is sober are liable to be committed when a prisoner is under the influence of alcohol or some other drug.
- a remote confinement system which provides the capability of not only verifying the presence of the prisoner at the ho e or at any other remote confinement location to which the person is to be confined at any particular time, but which also provides means for remotely determining compliance by the prisoner with behavioral conditions in addition to that of confinement itself. More particularly, it is an objective of the present invention to provide such a remote confinement system with the capability for remote determination of compliance by the prisoner with restrictions on the use of drugs, particularly, alcohol.
- a remote confinement system is provided with means for establishing a communications link between a central office and a remote confinement location, preferably a selected one of many such locations, at which a prisoner is confined.
- the system includes means at the remote confinement location for the unsupervised extracting of informa ⁇ tion from a person at the location for identifying the person as the designated prisoner and for determining the presence of evidence of a violation of a behavioral condition by the person so identified.
- the system provides for the communication to the central office of information to verify the prisoner's presence at the remote confinement location and the prisoner's compliance with the behavioral condition.
- the present invention provides at the remote confinement location a capability for performing tests for the prisoner's compliance with specific behavioral condi ⁇ tions.
- the system of the present invention accomplishes its objectives by performing a test or sampling proce dure intermittently to detect the results or lingerin effects of a violation which has previously occurred or has occurred outside of a sphere of surveillance.
- the present invention makes use of the fact that in the case of alcohol consumption, for example, as in cases of other drug use, a number of body fluid tests or other tests taken on or in the vicinity of the prisoner are employable to detect a violation by the prisoner.
- Blood tests for example are effective to detect most types of substance abuse.
- Blood alcohol content (BAC) can be reliably and economically deter ⁇ mined through breath testing, ⁇ rinalysis also is effective for the detection of many abusable sub- stances.
- Saliva testing has been found to be useful in testing for abuses of some substances also.
- the present invention provides the capability for the testing at the remote confinement location without on-site supervision and provides for the communication of the test data or test results from the remote location to a central location where information from the test can be processed to arrive at a decision as to whether or not there has been a violation of the behavioral conditions by the prisoner.
- the present invention provides for the reduction of the test data to a test result, and for determining from the result the existence of a violation. The data reduction and determination is made either at the incarceration location or at the central office, and either automatically or in part with operator assis ⁇ tance.
- a remote confinement system is provided with the means for assuring that the data from the test is indeed associated with the specific remotely confined prisoner.
- the identity of the person whose breath is being tested must be verified as that of the intended prisoner. Otherwise, either alone or with the cooperation of a friend or family member, the purpose of the test for compliance with behavioral conditions could be defeated.
- the present invention further provides a remote confinement system which is flexible, econom ⁇ ical and efficient. It does so in part by allowing for a minimum of central office supervision, moni ⁇ toring, and manual decision making.
- the remote confinement system of the present invention allows for a minimum amount of equipment at the central office facilities and a minimum of central office staff to accommodate a large number of remotel confined prisoners.
- the present inven ⁇ tion also provides a system which will accommodate a maximum amount of automated decision making, a minimu amount of manual monitoring, and the ability to adapt to and utilize a wide variety of the technological advances in remote monitoring equipment, and in information transmission, analysis and processing, which have been recently perfected, are in the proces of development, or which may hereinafter be developed or reduced to a more economical and efficient form so that these advances may be added to or may replace th components of systems which have been deployed.
- the present invention specifically provides a remote confinement system in which a signal is derived at a remote confinement location which con ⁇ tains information for determining the presence and identity of the specified prisoner at the location.
- the invention further provides for deriving informa- tion at the remote confinement location from which determination of compliance with the prisoner's conditions of confinement can be made.
- the system of the invention further provides for verifying that the source of the information regarding compliance is information relating to the conduct of the person whose presence and identity were determined.
- the system includes a communications link from the remote confinement location to a central monitoring station such as a parole office, and provides for presenting at the central location the information from which the results of the attendance and behavioral tests can be determined.
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a remote confinement system according to principles of the present invention.
- Fig * 2 is a block diagram of a first pre- ferred embodiment of a remote confinement system as shown in Fig. 1 in accordance with additional, princi ⁇ ples of the present invention.
- Fig. 3 is a block diagram of a second preferred embodiment of the present invention showing alternative adaptations of a remote confinement system according to the present invention. Detailed Description of the Invention
- Fig. 1 illustrates diagrammatically the general configuration employed by the specific embodi ments described below.
- Fig. 1 shows a remote confine ment system 10 which is provided with a behavioral condition tester 11 which is capable of detecting the lingering effects of a behavioral condition violation by the remotely confined prisoner and communicating the information to a central office 12.
- a communica ⁇ tions link 13 which connects the central office 12 with a remote confinement location 14 at which the prisoner is located communicates the test information to the central office 12.
- the behavioral condition tester 11 is located at the remote confinement loca ⁇ tion 14 along with means 15 for extracting informatio for verifying the identity of the person tested by the tester 11 as that of the designated prisoner.
- identity confirming information of a person at the confinement location 14 is transmitted to a central monitoring location 12 through the communications link 13.
- behavioral condition compliance information is extracted from the person at the confinement location 14 by the tester 11 and is also transmitted to the central location 12 through the communications link 13.
- the system 10 of the present invention presents this information at the central office 12 for evaluation and for verification of the presence of the prisoner at the remote confinement location 14 and for determination of the identified prisoner's compliance with the behavioral condition associated with his order of confinement.
- the identity confirming information is information having a high probability of being uniquely associated with the particular prisoner.
- the prior art home arrest systems have employed only an artificial signal source attached to the prisoner in the form of a bracelet or anklet which, on cue or otherwise, is made to transmit an identification signal unique to a particular prisoner.
- Some of the embodiments of the present invention employ as the prisoner identity verifier 15 such identity confirming means in a manner uniquely combined with other features of this inven- tion.
- an identity verifier 15 such as pictorial camera which develops visual image information which may be transmitted over the communi ⁇ cations link 13, particularly over voice quality telephone lines, to present a visual image of the prisoner at the central office 12.
- Alternative embodiments employ voice information which may be transmitted to the central office 12 as a characteris- tic voice print unique to the prisoner.
- Fingerprint information is also an acceptable form of intrinsic information which may be transmitted to the central office as an unique and positive identification characteristic of the prisoner.
- Chemical or biologi- cal information from blood or other body fluids or tissue can also provide means for effective identi ⁇ fication of specific prisoners. Still, other intrin ⁇ sic human characteristics such as unique ocular patterns of the fundus of the eye retina are adaptable to the identity verifying means 15.
- inventions of the invention employ a category of identity confirming information which is learned by the prisoner.
- the learned infor ⁇ mation may be a unique skill or statement taught specifically for the purpose of the home incarceration identification, or may be information from the knowl ⁇ edge, skills and experience previously learned by the prisoner and difficult to duplicate by others.
- Handwriting for example, is a product of an acquired skill and is different for each individual. The differences provide the capability of personal identi ⁇ fication by experts and, in addition, by recently developed equipment which can distinguish among sources automatically.
- an identifying compari ⁇ son is made automatically at the home location in the equipment 15 there provided, and in others information is transmitted to the central office 12 where compari ⁇ son with information in the central office data files is made, either automatically or with the aid of an operator.
- a behavioral condition tester 11 to measure the blood alcohol content of the prisoner to determine compliance with a confinement condition restricting the consumption of alcohol by the prisoner
- the test is made in the form of a breath test or other test of body fluid delivered by the prisoner into the tester 11.
- Other tests particularly those for analyzing body fluids such as blood, urine and saliva, are capable of being performed by automated equipment included " in the tester 11.
- Tests of these fluids for specific substances can be performed without super ⁇ vision at a remote confinement location 14.
- Tech- niques for testing a fluid with a specific reagent for example, are available for testing for many drugs. Such techniques result in visually perceivable reaction results which can be transmitted by picture from the remote location 14 to the central office 12.
- Other techniques are capable of producing test results or data in the form of an electrical signal which is readily transmitted from the remote location 14 to the central office 12 where it can be automatically interpreted.
- Certain embodiments of the present invention include the additional steps or means for verification that the breath test or other test or sampling from the tester 11 that is employed to determine compliance with the behavioral condition is in fact a test or sample related to the prisoner whose identity is confirmed by the identity verifier 15 in the system
- This verification of the source of the test data is achieved by using an interrelated identity con ⁇ firming and condition sampling method to insure that two bodies of information are derived from the same human source. This is accomplished in some of those embodiments which employ video or pictorial informa ⁇ tion to verify the prisoner's identity, for example, by reading or recording the visually perceivable readout of the breath test or other condition sampling operation in the same picture used to confirm the prisoner's identity.
- voice identification for example, the source verification is accomplished by using a dual purpose sampling device for obtaining breath and voice samples in such a way that the samples are obtained sufficiently close in time or place so that they are assured of being derived from the same human source.
- the same dual testing or sampling device is employed, such as by obtaining from the prisoner's finger substantially contemporan ⁇ eously, a fingerprint for identification purposes and a blood test for sampling blood chemistry for behav ⁇ ioral condition compliance. Additionally, it is contemplated that technological refinements will continue to produce more compact and economical automated devices which will enable the sampling of blood and other tests for substance abuse, and to further facilitate the derivation of information from the tests in an economical manner, and that advances will continue to produce more compact and economical devices to enable identification of the person who is the source of a bodily fluid or other test performed automatically.
- certain embodiments of the invention further contemplate the utilization of a single prisoner test or sample which contains both identity confirming information and confinement condition compliance information, as for example from a sample of blood.
- a transmission link 13 is provided from a central office to the various confinement locations 14. Such a link may utilize any of a number of the various available communications networks.
- the public telephone system is utilized in many of the preferred embodiments described herein.
- the video cable systems as well as air wave links are also contemplated and may be desirable in certain embodiments and adapta- tions of the invention.
- information may be transmitted from the remote con ⁇ finement location 14, where it is derived from the prisoner by the particular sampling method, to the central location 12 where it is processed and where a decision is made.
- the information may be automatically processed by various devices or circuitry at the remote confinement location 14 and the results of the comparison only transmitted to the central office 12.
- the embodiments which employ detection logic and comparison logic at the remote confinement loca ⁇ tion 14 can make greater use of lower quality trans ⁇ mission means by reducing the information content in the signal being transmitted to the central office 12. This feature is most useful and helpful when voice quality phone lines are used.
- the telephone switching network must be made to reliably establish a communications link to the specified confinement location 14. While location confirmation can be assured with dedicated lines from the central office 12 to the confinement location 14, the embodi ⁇ ments of the present invention which are described herein employ selectable networks such as the standard telephone switching network to address specific locations.
- the standard telephone switching network is determinative of the level of confidence in con ⁇ firming the location of the test being performed. It is contemplated that adequate administrative steps are taken to assure the desired level of reliability by preventing the use of call forwarding and other such features.
- Selectability can be achieved with a tele- phone system by random dialing of programmed phone numbers. Selectability can also be controlled by a computer at the central office 12 to select different locations 14 at different times according to a program, thus accommodating a limited confinement schedule of a prisoner, or accommodating a sentence which allows confinement at more than one location, such as at work and at home at different predetermined times of the day.
- the equipment provided at the confinement location 14 is capable of being geograph ⁇ ically fixed and, if provided with equipment identi ⁇ fying coding devices, will furnish a means for loca ⁇ tion verification where non-selective communication links are employed. Certain embodiments of the present invention may utilize this in connection with the cable or air wave communication from the central office 12 to the confinement location 14, or to verify telephone link communications. With such systems, the equipment of each remote location 14 may be made to respond to a unique calling code.
- a home incarceration or remote confinement system 10 includes a central office 12 and plurality of remote incarceration locations 14.
- the central office 12 is, for example, a communica- tions center at the probation office or correctional facility.
- the remote confinement locations 14 may be residences of persons under home confinement or may be their work places or other locations at which their freedom of movement is to be restricted.
- the confine- ment locations 14 are illustrated as 14-1 through 14-N in Figure 2.
- Each of the locations 14-1 (referred to hereinafter as 14) is selectively connectable to the central office 12 through a conventional telephone system 16 by telephone lines 18 thereby establishing a selective communications link 13 between central office 12 and each of the confinement locations 14.
- all communications occur over telephone lines 18 which are of standard voice quality
- each of the home incar ⁇ ceration locations 14 is provided with a prisoner identity verifier 15 which is made up of a freeze frame picture telephone 20.
- the picture telephone 20 is directly wired to the voice quality telephone line 18 connecting that confinement location 14 to the telephone system exchange 16.
- the picture telephone 20 may be any device capable of transmitting pictorial information from the confinement location 14 over the telephone lines 18. Devices which transmit still pictorial images at a rate of one every few seconds are suitable for this application.
- One such device is commercially available, for example, under the trade name Luma Video Telephone manufactured by Luma Telecom of California, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Industries.
- This device includes a camera 22 which is capable of collecting pictorial information in the form of one still image every two or three seconds.
- This picture telephone 20 in its commercially available form also has a video display screen 24 which will display the images received over the phone lines 18. However, in this application, the screen 24 of the picture tele- phone 20 is not necessary at the remote confinement location 14.
- the picture telephone device 20 also includes a two-way audio speaker 26 which functions provide two-way audio communications in the same manner as a telephone handset or a speaker phone.
- the picture telephone 20 also includes a touch tone key set 28 which functions as does the key set of a conventional touch tone telephone; it also includes other push button control functions.
- the remote confinement location 14 is also provided with a behavioral condition tester 11 in the form of a breath tester 30 which is capable of measuring the blood alcohol content ("BAC") of a prisoner or probationer confined to the confinement location 14.
- the breath tester 30 includes either an analog meter or digital display 32 for visually displaying the result of the test in a visually perceivable form which can be read by the camera 22.
- the camera 22 forms a still picture image of the readout of the display 32 for transfer over the phone lines 18 in a form capable of being perceived and interpreted at the central office 12.
- the breath tester 30 in this embodi ⁇ ment is equipped with visual display 32 which is large enough and clear enough to be resolvable in a picture transmitted by the particular picture telephone device 20 which is employed.
- the breath tester 30 is equipped with a mouthpiece 34 adapted to receive a breath sample from the prisoner.
- the breath tester 30 operates such that, when the breath sample is blown by the prisoner into the mouthpiece 34, a BAC reading is produced on the display 32.
- An image of the display 32 is recorded by the camera 22 and transmitted by the picture phone 20 over the phone lines 18 to the central office 12.
- the identity of the person pro ⁇ viding the breath sample can then be determined by an attendant at the central office 12.
- an attendant at the central office 12 can further confirm that the breath sample is being given at the same time as the picture image is being formed.
- Breath testers suitable for use as the breath testing device 30 are commercially available.
- One such device is, for example, the Alert model J4 manufactured by Alcohol Countermeasures Systems Inc. of Mississauga Ontario, Canada. This device has long been marketed for use in preliminary roadside screening by law enforcement officers. The Alert J4 is portable and economical.
- This breath testing device is more fully described in the U.S. Patent No. 3,764,274 issued to Collier et al, expressly incorpor ⁇ ated herein by reference in its entirety.
- the breath tester 30 may be provided with circuitry capable of transmitting the breath test data or a signal carry ⁇ ing the breath test results directly over the telephone line 18 to the central office 12. Such circuitry may include an output line 36 connected to the picture telephone 20.
- An adaption of the breath tester 30 described above but having an output in the form of an electrical signal which can be delivered over the output line 36 is described in the U.S.
- the breath tester output signal is used to enable an automobile ignition system upon the pass- ing of a test of the sobriety of the driver.
- the internal logic circuitry of the tester performs a threshold test and generates an ignition enabling signal when the BAC from a valid sample measures below a predetermined level.
- the output signal may instead carry the breath test data in the form, for example, of an analog signal proportional to the BAC, or may carry the test result in the form, for example, of a simple binary signal indicating that the test has been passed or failed. This direct electrical transmission of the breath test to the central office 12 will be more fully described in connection with the other embodiments discussed below.
- visual transmission of either the data or the test results by way of still pictures is employed in part because it is an effi ⁇ cient method generally suitable for communicating information from almost any test. It is also employed in part because it will transmit information needed to verify the identity of the person on whom the test is being performed and will do so over voice quality phone lines.
- pictorial information transmission blood tests, saliva tests, urine tests, other tests on body fluid, and tests of other sorts for determination of compliance with various behavioral conditions of confinement, may be made at the remote confinement location 14 and transmitted to the central office 12.
- a picture telephone 40 is also provided at the central office
- the picture telephone 40 may be identical to the picture telephone 20 at the remote confinement loca ⁇ tion 14.
- the telephone 40 would likewise be commer ⁇ cially equipped with a camera 42, a display screen 44, a two-way audio speaker 46, and a digital key set 48 including a touch tone telephone key board and other push button controls.
- the camera 42 is not used and may be omitted at the central office picture telephone set 40, since receipt of pictorial information, not its transmis ⁇ sion, is what must be accomplished at the central office 12.
- the central office 12 is provided with a printer 50 to print a hard copy of the pictorial image received by the picture telephone 40, thus, making a permanent record for filing or for later analysis.
- the central office 12 is further provided with an automatic dialer 54 connected through the telephone line 18, to the phone system 16.
- the dialer 54 is capable of being activated under the control of a computer to dial the telephone number of a selected one of a plurality of home arrest locations 14.
- the telephone switching system 16 is used to selectively establish the communications link 13 between the central office 12 and the confinement location 14 at which the selected prisoner is confined.
- the central control office 12 is provided with a computer 60.
- the computer 60 is programmed to operate the automatic dialer 54 to dial the telephone numbers of specific confinement locations in either a predetermined or random manner.
- the computer 60 has an output 62 connected to the automatic dialer 54, and another output 64 connected to the picture telephone 40.
- the output 62 transmits the telephone number signals from the computer 60 to the dialer 54.
- the output 64 is a cable capable of transmitting informa ⁇ tion from the picture phone 40 for interpretation by the computer 60, and from the computer 60 to the picture phone 40 to control the functions of the phone 40 or to send information out over the phone lines 18.
- the computer 60 is provided with a further output 66 connected to the printer 50 to operate the printer 50 in accordance with the computer program.
- a further connection 68 is provided to connect the computer 60 with a data bank 70.
- This data bank 70 may be a disk, tape drive, or other digitized storage medium containing information relating to specific prisoners who are to be moni ⁇ tored.
- the data bank 70 will contain lists of the behavioral conditions o terms of probation relating to the prisoners involved in the home incar ⁇ ceration program, the phone numbers of the prisoners which are associated with each of the locations of confinement, and other information such as a digitized reference picture of the prisoner.
- the digitized reference picture may be called up from data bank 70 by the computer 60 to be either displayed on a screen at the computer 60 for real time comparison by an operator or a computerized image analysis system, with the image from the confinement location 14 which is displayed on screen 44, or it may be transmitted through the output line 66 to the printer 50 and printed out with the image from the picture phone 40 so that the images may be compared with the reference picture from the data bank 70 at a later time.
- the system operates preferably with initiation of a sequence at the central office 12.
- a prisoner is selected and a signal containing the phone number of the remote confinement location 14 at which the selected prisoner is confined is sent through the output 62 to the automatic dialer 54.
- This causes the dialer 54 to dial the location 14 over the conventional telephone lines 18 and through the telephone switching system 16 establishing a communications link 13 with the confinement location to which the particular selected prisoner is incarcerated.
- the computer 60 is programmed to require an answer at the confinement location 14. If there is no answer after a predetermined number of tries, the fact that a violation has occurred is either recorded or immediately transmitted to a violations office 72 over an additional output 74.
- the violations office 72 is used here symbolically to represent the authority assigned to act upon a report of a violation by a prisoner.
- the camera 22 of the picture phone 20 will take an electronic still picture image of the face of the person answering the call or at an announced time delay after the call is answered to allow the specified prisoner time to come to the phone.
- the picture phone 20 will then transmit the image via the voice quality phone lines 18 to the picture phone 40 at the central office 12.
- This picture may be immediately compared by an operator viewing the screen 44 and comparing the screen image with the information from the file image, in this case an image called up the data bank 70 by the computer 60 as described above. If the image does not match, a manual decision is made by the operator to either signal the violations office 72 or to make a record of a violation of the behavioral condition for later action, as for example, printing out a message at the printer 50. If the confined prisoner is present at the location 14 and his presence is confirmed, the test of the additional confinement condition, in this case the alcohol breath test, is performed.
- the behavioral condition for which the prisoner is being tested is the abstinence from alcoholic consumption.
- the prisoner is thus, upon answering the central office call, instructed by a signal sent over the phone lines 18 from the central office 12, either by the attendant or by a pre-recorded message from the central office
- the test is accomplished by the operation of the breath tester 30 at the arrest location 14 to test the alcohol blood content of the confined person. Within a certain amount time, either pre-determined by the program 60 or determined by the attendant, the con ⁇ fined person must activate the breath tester 30 by delivering a breath sample into the mouthpiece 34. With respect to typical breath testers such as the type described above, the breath tester 30 is designed to require a sustained air flow of four to five seconds duration in order to deliver a deep lung air sample. Such a sample provides a reliable test for an accurate alcohol blood content reading. The delivery of a proper breath sample is determined by a pressure switch and timing circuitry within the breath tester 30.
- the pre-existence of a proper sample is required to either activate the display 32 or to generate a signal to the output line 36 to the picture phone 20 for verification by transmission of a signal, over the phone lines 18 to the central office 12, that the breath sample has been delivered.
- the five second sampling period allows for at least one other still picture of the prisoner to be taken by the picture telephone 20 while the breath sample is being delivered and transmitted to the central office 12.
- picture phones of this type will generate two or three images during the 5 second period. This picture so generated will allow the attendant to verify the identity of the person delivering the breath specimen. This will prevent or at least minimize the likelihood that a person other than the specified prisoner is the source of the breath sample being measured by the breath tester 30.
- the operator will hear the delivery of the breath sample through the two way speakers 26 and 46 as the picture showing the user is being received.
- the LUMA phone described above includes push button controls to select full, medium or small screen images.
- the full screen image may require 5 to 8 seconds for transmission, and its higher resolution picture is suitable for the initial prisoner identifying image.
- the smaller screen images can be transmitted in 2 to 3 seconds with this device and thus they are more suitable for verification of the identity of the tested person.
- the prisoner is required to send a series of closely spaced freeze frame images showing the prisoner delivering the sample. This is accomplished by selecting the small screen mode of the LUMA phone and having the prisoner push its SEND button at intervals corresponding to the most rapid transmission rate (i.e., 2-3 seconds) during the entire course of sample delivery.
- an audible or visual cue such as a tone or light flash signal may be sent from central office 12 or generated at remote location. This will result in receipt at the central office 12 of a chronological series of closely temporally spaced, freeze frame images at the central office showing the prisoner in the act of sample delivery. If any of the images show a person other than the prisoner or if any of the images are spaced in time far enough that the prisoner could reasonably have enlisted the aid of an accomplice to deliver the sample, regardless of whether the image of the accom ⁇ plice appears in any image, the test will be invalid and a new test required.
- the sample is analyzed automatically by the breath tester 30 and the result in the form of a numerical BAC reading is displayed on the display 32.
- the digital or analog display 32 will be picked up by a further pictorial i age taken by camera 22 and transmitted to the central office 12. This information will also be displayed at the central office 12 through the picture telephone 40 on either screen 44 or the printer 50, and will be analyzed manually or automatically either at the time that it is received or subsequently. If the breath test does not show a reading within the acceptable alcohol blood content level, a violation will be communicated to the violations office 72.
- the transmission of information pictorially from the remote confinement location 14 to the central office 12 has the particular advantage of flexibility in the nature of the behavioral condition which may be tested.
- Any visually readable test result or test data may be transmitted in this way. Changes can be made to existing systems by substituting some other test for the alcohol breath test at any confinement location 14. Thus the same system 10, with the testing devices differing among the various confine- ment locations 14, may be employed to monitor differ ⁇ ent confinement conditions for different prisoners at the same time.
- test is the Alcoscan Saliva Alcohol Test developed by Lifescan, Inc. of Mountain View, California.
- the test utilizes dry reagent chemistry for the rapid detection of ethanol in saliva. It uses a test strip in which the enzyme alcohol oxidase couples with a dye system to produce an intense color change when in the presence of ethanol.
- the test strip is furnished with a sealed packet costing less than a few dollars each, and which includes instruc ⁇ tions and the necessary materials for a complete, self-contained, self-administerable test.
- the Alcoscan Saliva Alcohol Test is per ⁇ formed by the taking of a saliva sample from the mouth of the prisoner onto a clean swab provided with the kit. The sample is then applied to saturate a reagent pad on the test strip. The test strip is then returned to a foil or transparent wrapper for a short reaction period. At the end of the reaction time, a stable color is developed by the test strip which can be visually compared with a color scale printed on the packet. A high BAC in the prisoner produces a very fast reaction.
- the alcohol oxidase enzyme test is highly specific, reacting only with methanol and ethanol.
- the kit described is sensitive at levels as low as .010% BAC.
- Distinguishable test strip colors result at the BAC levels of .01, .05 and .10 percent.
- a chemical reagent test in the Alcoscan case a specific dry reagent test for alcohol in saliva, will replace the breath tester 30 in the first described embodiment.
- the prisoner will receive instructions or a signal from the central office 12 to perform the reagent test, rather than the breath test, before the camera 22 of the picture phone 20.
- a picture will be trans ⁇ mitted to verify that the specified prisoner who is the one delivering the saliva test.
- a subsequent picture transmitted to the central office 12 will communicate the test results.
- the confinement location 14 may be provided with means for immediately securing the test sample when it is delivered. This can be done by providing a receptacle to receive the test strip while the test is before the camera 20, immedi ⁇ ately after the sample is given. The receptacle will be fixed in a position viewable by the camera 22. An automatic follow-up call at the end of the reaction time will transmit a picture of the test results. The test samples so verified can be secured and later physically collected for further analysis.
- Dry reagent tests, and other reagent tests are available for other substances.
- a test for marijuana is available in dry reagent test strip form for use on saliva.
- Tests have been available for determining the presence of other drugs or their degradation products in urine or blood. Some of these tests are specific, some are class sensitive. Most have a very low false detection rate.
- Systems for detecting a wide variety of drugs in urine or blood are marketed by Syva Company of Palo Alto, California under the trade name Emit Drug Detection Systems.
- Equipment is also available for performing automated tests on body fluids such as blood and urine. An example are the Cromotographs manufactured by Varian of Sunnyvale, California. Where body fluids of any type are tested with the system of the first preferred embodiment of the invention, pictorial information of the prisoner during the delivery of the sample ver- ifies the identity of person from whom the sample is taken.
- the breath alcohol test is a very important test and one which is often desired in the context of a remote confinement program. Accordingly, system advantages can be obtained by embodiments of the present invention which are specif ⁇ ically adapted to a specific test such as blood/alcohol breath test developed through the use of a breath tester 30.
- a specific test such as blood/alcohol breath test developed through the use of a breath tester 30.
- One such embodiment which does so in the context of a system which makes greater use of auto ⁇ mated analysis and decision making is illustrated and described in the second preferred embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of the second preferred embodiment as a present invention.
- this embodiment is described in the context of the system 10 which employs a central office 12, a remote confinement location 14 which is one of a plurality of such locations, and communica- tions link 13 between the central office 12 and the confinement location 14.
- the link includes a conven ⁇ tional telephone switching station of the commercial public telephone exchange 16.
- the connections between the central office 12, the telephone exchange 16, and the confinement locations 14 are voice quality tele ⁇ phone lines 18.
- pictorial information is not the primary means employed to identify the prisoner and transmit test results, but rather the information is communi ⁇ cated in the form of machine readable electrical signals.
- a breath tester 30 in the form of behavioral condition tester 11 is employed at the confinement location 14 to measure the prisoner's BAC. Instead of generating a visually perceivable readout, however, the breath tester 30 is equipped with circuitry for producing an electrical signal containing information from the results of the breath test. This signal is presented at an output terminal 36 of the breath tester 30 which is connected to telephone line 18 through a modem or other telephone transceiver 80 which is capable of transmitting a signal containing digital or analog encoded information of the results or data from a breath test analysis.
- the transceiver 80 also contains circuitry for detecting and responding to signals from the central office 12, and for implementing an operating sequence. Also con ⁇ nected to phone line 18 may be a telephone unit or modem 80 which may be operated in conjunction with transceiver 82 and to facilitate response to a tele ⁇ phone call over the phone line 18.
- the breath tester 30 contains a microphone 84 which is mounted within or in functional proximity to a breath sampling system 86 to which the mouthpiece 34 of breath tester 30 connects to the breath tester 30.
- the microphone 84 is elec ⁇ trically connected so as to impose the audio signal either directly from the microphone onto the phone line 18, or indirectly through a network or other circuitry to the phone line 18.
- the purpose of the microphone 84 is to provide for the taking of a voice sample from the user of the breath testing device 30.
- the purpose of the voice sample is to derive informa ⁇ tion through which the user may be identified.
- the voice information takes the place of some of the visual information in first embodiment described above. This voice information will carry sufficient data to allow for positive identification of the prisoner and constitutes the prisoner identity veri ⁇ fier 15 of the diagram of Fig. 1.
- the voice sample will also contain informa ⁇ tion for verifying that the person delivering the breath sample and the identified prisoner are one in the same. That requirement is achieved by the physi ⁇ cal placement of the microphone 84 near but preferably within the breath sampling system 86.
- the voice sample is delivered by the user in the form of speech or as a hum as the breath sample is being given. With the provision for circuit logic within the system 10 to synchronize the reading of the breath and voice samples, it can be assured with reasonable certainty that the samples are being taken from one and the same person.
- the microphone 84 and its relation to the mouthpiece 34 described here in connection with this second preferred embodiment may be of the type described from the patent of Joseph P. Hoppesch, U.S. No. 3,809,067.
- the particular device shown in the Hoppesch patent was designed specifically to combine the taking of the breath sample with the taking of a voice sample in the course of using the breath tester 30 in order to require that the two samples be given by the same person at the same time. As such, the likelihood that the breath sample and the voice sample would be from different persons, defeating the purpose of the test, will be minimized.
- the picture phone 40 in Figure 2 at the central office 12 is unnecessary. Instead, at the central office 12, the phone line 18 will connect directly through a modem 90 to the computer 60.
- the automatic dialer 54 is also employed with this system 10 connected in an output line 62 between the computer 60 and either the modem 90 or the telephone line 18 directly.
- the dialer 54 is symbol ⁇ ically illustrated in the figures. It is also common that such a dialer be physically incorporated into the computer 60 or the modem 90.
- Identification of the probationer by voice or by the audio characteristics of the prisoner's hum involves a use of the concept of voice print analysis. This concept is based upon the fact that anatomical differences among individuals result in sound spectra unique to each person, analyses of which will provide for the confirmation of the identity of an unknown speaker when comparison is made of the unknown person's voiceprint with a known voiceprint of the same indi ⁇ vidual's voice.
- voice print analysis is discussed in an article entitled Voiceprint Identi ⁇ fication by L. G. Kersta of Bell Telephone Labora ⁇ tories, Murray Hill, New Jersey and published in the December 29, 1962 issue of Nature Magazine.
- the use of voiceprint analysis for remote user identification is described in U.S. patent No. 3,525,811 to F. C. Trice et al.
- Another speech recognition system is the
- Tl-Speech System by Texas Instruments. It includes a subsystem called the Ti-Speech Vocabulary Manager & Transparent Keyboard which also functions to memorize speech patterns and sounds and to respond with a command when they are duplicated. This system too is adaptable to discriminating among the speech of different persons.
- a further speech recognition syste which utilizes concepts capable of adaptation to identification of a prisoner by voice is the Kurzweil Voicesystem from Kurzweil Applied Intelli ⁇ gence, Inc. of Los Angeles, California. It is contemplated that the hardware and software components for identifying the prisoner by speech or by a hum made during a delivery of the breath sample will be installed at the computer 60 in the central office 12.
- the voice profiles of the prisoners can be retrieved from the data bank 70 and compared with the audio signal received at the central office 12 over the phone lines 18 from the remote confinement location 14.
- the identification is made by conventional methods of correlation of the voice standard with the voice print from the test.
- the limiting factors are those imposed by the quality of the phone lines 18. Communications networks using higher quality lines, fiber optics, coaxial cable or other wide band transmission lines, or air waves will accommodate a higher signal information density and, accordingly, will facilitate more sophisticated and reliable voiceprint analysis at the central office 12.
- voice print identification will be accomplished, in part at least, by installation of equipment at the remote confinement location 14. Such equipment is rapidly becoming more economical.
- circuitry including filter networks or voice print templates or masks encoded on memory devices to be correlated with and to process the signal before transmission over the phone lines 18, the reliability of the identification of the prisoner by voice analysis can be enhanced.
- Devices for making an on site correlation of the voice sample with identification criteria are described in U.S. Patent No. 3,989,896 to H.J.P. Reitbaeck.
- Such devices can be made tunable or programmable to selec ⁇ tively respond to the voiceprint of only the predeter- mined prisoner assigned to the specific confinement location 14. With this adaption, the identification decision could be made automatically either with the equipment at the remote location 14 or with that at the central office 12. The identification decision so made would be fully automated, and the need for an attendant at the central office 12 would be reduced or eliminated.
- this second preferred embodiment proceeds in a manner similar to that of the first embodiment described above.
- the computer 60 together with the dialer 54, causes the central office 12 to connect over the telephone lines 18 through the central office 16 to the selected remote confinement location 14. If there is no answer, a violation is signaled to the violations office 92. If there is an answer, a recorded message or a recognizable signal of some other sort is caused to appear at the confinement location 14 to instruct the prisoner to perform the breath test or whatever test is indicated. In this case, the prisoner must deliver the five second breath sample at the tester 30 and, at the same time, must provide an identifiable sound by humming into the same mouthpiece 34 so that the hum is picked up by the microphone 84 as the breath sample is being taken.
- a signal carrying the information of the prisoner's BAC and of the voice sample delivered at the time of the breath test are analyzed and trans ⁇ mitted to the central office 12.
- a failure of either the BAC test or the voice print test will be inter ⁇ preted as a violation and signaled to the violations office 92.
- a device commonly called a "sniffer"
- a device operates to generate an alarm signal when air having a detectable alcohol content comes into contact with the sensor of the device.
- Sniffers usually contain a small fan to direct air through a fuel cell test chamber. Devices of this type are also manufactured by Lion Laboratories Ltd. of Cambridge, U.K. The use of sniffers is practical where their presence is unknown to the prisoner. They may be concealed in the telephone unit in systems such as this second embodiment where voice tests are being performed. Sniffers are less reliable and more easily circumvented than the breath testers described above, so concealment of the devices is preferred.
- the devices inability to quantitatively assess BAC is not a serious shortcoming.
- Such devices can further be used to detect the likelihood of user circumvention of the tester 30 and to signal that further investigation of a prisoner is in order.
- the integrity of the breath test sample is maintained with the use of an interrelated sampling technique.
- This embodiment also produces signals which are reduced to forms which are automatically perceivable by the computer-60 so that violations detection can be made without manual intervention at the central office 12.
- the automatic determination of the result of the confinement condition test and the prisoner identification can be done with devices designed to test for conditions other than BAC with a breath tester 30. Electrical outputs from blood or urine analysis equipment can be communicated to the central office 12 in the same manner as the breath test results.
- alternative methods to a voice print for verifying th identity of the person giving the sample or performing the test may be desirable.
- the voice print method of identification can be effectively used to insure the integrity of samples given by mouth, such as the breath test described here or saliva tests which might be alterna ⁇ tively desired.
- saliva tests which might be alterna ⁇ tively desired.
- identifi ⁇ cation by fingerprints has advantages in being easily adaptable to interrelated sampling techniques. This alternative is more fully discussed in connection with alternative subsystems below.
- this second preferred embodiment relies upon data intrinsic to the specific prisoner to identify the prisoner.
- the visual image of the prisoner's face and his voice are sufficiently unique intrinsic properties of an individual to make identification by those characteristics acceptably reliable.
- Other intrinsic characteristics of the prisoner such as fingerprints, can be employed in alternative embodi ⁇ ments of the invention.
- the identification of the prisoner may also be accomplished by reliance on factors which are not intrinsic to the prisoner, but rather involve the performance of an identity confirming act by the prisoner. Such an act would involve the exercise of skills or knowledge taught to or otherwise learned or acquired by the prisoner. An example of such acts would include a spoken sequence, a series of physical movements, and handwriting samples.
- Handwriting for example, is unique for each person; comparisons of handwriting can be made visually or by pen pressure readouts.
- a system which provides automated personal identification by handwriting sample delivery is described in U.S. Patent No. 3,983,535 to Noel M. Herbst et al.
- Another example of the use of an identity confirming act is that of the third preferred embodiment described below.
- the third preferred embodiment of the present invention is in all respects identical to that of Fig. 3, except that the breath tester 30 is the device dis ⁇ closed in U.S. Pat. Appln. Ser. No. 907,881, entitled Sobriety Interlock with Unsupervised Confirmation of Operator Identity expressly incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- This embodiment relies for identification of the prisoner of the performance by the prisoner of an identity confirming physical act which cannot be readily learned by most persons
- This device like that of the second embodiment described with reference to Fig. 3, operates to take two interrelated data samples from the prisoner and to generate electrical signals to report the prisoner's BAC and to confirm the prisoner's identity, and in the process of doing so to verify that the breath sample and the prisoner identi ⁇ fying information are from one and the same person.
- the breath tester 30 of this embodiment is similar to that of the second embodiment described with reference in Fig. 3 above, except that, instead of the microphone 84 of Fig. 3, the breath tester 30 is equipped with pressure or air volume transducers and related circuitry for developing a signal repre- senting a signature of a modulated breath sequence delivered by the prisoner.
- the modulated breath sequence is a predetermined sequence of breath pulses which is difficult for a person to learn. It is taught to the prisoner when first placed in remote confinement. It may be, in part, an arbitrary sequence originated by the prisoner. Immediately after the sequence is taught to, or otherwise learned by, the prisoner, the transducer readout is processed through the remote confinement system, and is recorded on a machine readable medium to be incorporated either into the data bank 70 at the central office 12, or into the circuitry of the breath tester 30 or of the transceiver 80 at the confinement location 14, wher ⁇ ever the comparison is to be made.
- circuitry will be provided in either the test head or an associated control box which will also include means for com ⁇ paring the modulated breath sequence delivered at the time of the test with the signature stored in the memory device.
- the comparison is made with a microprocessor in the control box of the device.
- a control signal is produced and transmitted to the ignition system of an automobile to enable the car to start if the driver passes the sobriety test.
- This same form of signal can be the test result signal transmitted to the central office 12 as a pass or fail test result which enables the automobile ignition system.
- the identifying modulated breath sequence in this embodiment includes a series of pulses blown into the mouthpiece 34 of the breath tester 30. Timing circuitry within the breath test 30 requires that the modulated breath sample be given within a very short time after the sample of breath is delivered for the alcohol test. A short time separation of the tests is necessary so that the alcohol sample cannot be given by another person who will then pass the tester to the prisoner to deliver the coded breath sequence. Alternative techniques may be employed to prevent the passage of the breath sampling device from one person to another between delivery of the breath sample and the identity confirming code.
- a picture telephone 20 as utilized in connection with the first preferred embodiment described in Figure 2 can be employed. This allows for visual determination of whether the prisoner has passed the breath tester 30 to another person.
- This third embodiment eliminates the need for the transmission of raw data and analysis of the data at the central office 12. Accordingly the need for transmission of more information than the voice quality lines 18 can handle will not occur. This is because the decision processing with respect to both the breath alcohol test and the identity confirmation test are performed with the equipment at the confine- ment location 14. According, only one binary bit of the test result information need be transmitted over the voice quality line 18.
- the components at the central office 12 are simpler than with the previous systems. They need contain only a automatic dialer 54 and sufficient circuitry and logic to discriminate between a signal indicating that the test has been passed or one indicating if the test has been failed by the prisoner who is called. Either a failure to answer the automatic call or a failure to return the signal indicating that the breath test and identity test has been passed within a prescribed time, 15 seconds for example, from the answering of the call is sufficient to cause the central office to generate a signal to the violations office 92 to signal a violation.
- Remote confinement systems currently in use provide for a neck, wrist or anklet transmitter which is locked onto the prisoner confined to remote con ⁇ finement location 14.
- the location 14 is equipped with a device 15 for determining the presence of an identified prisoner, which device is a monitoring device which includes a receiver activated in response to a signal over a telephone line 18.
- the central office 12 is provided with the computer 60, modem 90 and a dialer 54 for dialing the various confinement locations 14 to interrogate the receiver.
- the presence of the prisoner in the vicinity of the receiver will cause the verification signal to returned over the telephone lines 18 to the central office 12.
- the transmitter is a radio frequency transmitter which will transmit a signal of sufficient strength to be detected by the receiver as long as the probationer is in the specified radius of the receiver.
- Such a system may be incorporated into the embodiments described above to provide substitute or backup identity verification 15.
- Systems providing an artificially generated signal transmitter to automatically initiate a call from the remote location 14 to the central office 12 may also be employed in cooperation with systems of the present invention.
- a transmitter 91 attached to the prisoner can operate in cooperation with a transmitter and auto ⁇ matic dialer 92 at the remote location 14 to put through a call whenever the possibility that the prisoner has strayed from the confinement location 14. This would cause the equipment at the central office 12 to proceed with the interrogation and testing sequence as described in connection with the embodi ⁇ ments as described above.
- This adaptation of the system 10 to the use of the transmitter/receiver feature of Fig. 4 can be used in combination with the picture phone 20 of Fig. 2 to detect attempts to generate a false transmitter signal to circumvent the prior art systems employing a transmitter fixed to the prisoner.
- Identity verification by the means 15 may be also accomplished in the embodiments described above by equipping the remote confinement location 14 with fingerprint reading devices. In doing so, the finger ⁇ print images may either be read and the data trans ⁇ mitted to the central office 12 where interrupted and compared with images on file for identity verification or may be analyzed at the confinement location by providing the automated fingerprint analysis equipment there.
- Finger print analysis is also capable of being accomplished by providing equipment at the remote confinement location. This is significantly easier where the fingerprints of the prisoner are to be compared with only one set or a limited number of sets in the file.
- Such equipment has been developed for computer installations requiring high security and for other secured facilities where a means more reliable than the use of keys, cards, or pass words is required to authorize entry to a facility or to permit user access to the computer.
- Self contained portable finger print identification devices such as the Ridge Reader manufactured by FingerMatrix Incorporated of North White Plains, New York, is one such device. This device contains the circuitry and information necessary to verify the identity of a limited number of individuals and to generate and enabling or dis ⁇ abling signal in response to the finger print veri ⁇ fication operation.
- a device at a remote confinement location will transmit an identity confirming signal over conventional telephone lines. Accordingly, the simplest of equipment at the central office 12 is required to receive the signal.
- the use of unsupervised blood sampling devices at the confinement location are an option. Devices for use by diabetics are available for the drawing of blood samples by the patient in the home. These devices contain an opening into which the patient inserts a finger, blood is drawn from the finger automatically, and a test is performed to determine the blood sugar level.
- a blood sample may be drawn to be analyzed for drugs or alcohol. The analysis may be done immediately or the sample may be drawn and held for future analysis.
- the time of the taking of the sample and the identity of the person delivering the sample is preserved where future supervised analysis is required.
- the fingerprint identification tech ⁇ nique is suitable, since the print can be taken from the same finger in the same operation as the taking of the blood sample, and the identity of the person providing the sample will be reliably determined.
- the systems described above may be provided with devices at the confinement location 14 or per- forming tests other than a breath test or alcohol on the probationer.
- Blood test, urine test, and saliva test are also capable of being performed remotely and by testing equipment of various types. Such tests will test for conditions of blood alcohol content or anyone of a large number of prohibited substances which the probationer may have consumed.
- Body fluids also contain information of discriminating character ⁇ istics which can be used to determine prisoner iden ⁇ tity. For instance, modern techniques permit testing a wide variety of parameters beyond the traditional A, B, AB and 0 antigens and Rh factor. It is now possible to test for a sufficiently large number of other genetically determined blood constituents that the probability of identification error can be reduced to an acceptably small percentage.
- the types of tests which can be performed automat- ically on various body fluids and as reference or the manner in which such test are performed the following equipment may be considered.
- Seva Company of California manufactures a series of automated devices for remotely performing tests on blood and urine. Such devices are manufactured under the name Seva Auto Lab Systems, the emit ST Drug Detection System, and the Seva QST System. These devices will perform a number of tests on blood or urine to determine the presence of barbituates, marijuana, cocaine, alcohol, opiates, and a number of other chemical substances. This line of equipment will analyze blood or urine and generate an analog signal with information relating to the results of the tests. Hewlett Packard Company also produces a number of sophisticated analytical instruments for performing general purpose analysis of blood or urine for substance detection. Whether or not it is econom ⁇ ically feasible to perform the test needed in a particular case, body fluid samples of all of these types may be taken, the donor verified by the system, and the specimen screened and saved for future analysis or evidentiary purposes.
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